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Welcome to the grid. South Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi turns
ordinary rooms into computer-generated-style landscapes -- using
black light and woven threads. "I like the contradiction," the
Berlin-based artist says. "People are confronted with a purely
analogue construction but experience a virtual landscape." Choi
originally started as a painter but, looking to work more freely
with colours and planes, one day replaced her brush with a
different tool. "One day, I came across a shop window with threads
in various colours and thicknesses. I said, 'Perfect', and started
using this material to "paint" on canvas." These drawings expanded
into a third dimension, then Choi worked out that, by darkening a
room and using black light, she could create "a new space or
entity".

Each installation is prompted
by the room. "Sometimes I have to be very precise, measuring,
calculating, planning, elaborating a concept," Choi says. "Other
times I draw directly into the room with red or black thread, I
walk through the room, looking for new ways in my own movements,
like Ariadne's thread." Choi will show new work at the end of
November in the Moeller Fine Art Gallery in Berlin. And perhaps,
eventually, on a truly international scale. "One most spectacular
project could be realising an installation at the border between
North and South Korea."